Rapologies: When Rappers Say Sorry

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Too $hort

Too $hort recently had to blow the whistle—on himself. The Bay Area icon was widely criticized for a video posted on XXLmag.com in which he gave some pointers to teenage boys about the opposite sex. In the video, Too $hort says that when boys "get to late middle school, early high school" and "start feeling a certain way about girls," they should skip the kisses and touch a girl "down there." He tells them to "push her against a wall," and it only gets more graphic from there. The video sparked outrage across the Internet and media, and Too Short apologized in an interview with Ebony. "I had never realized," Short said, "until this thing came up that legally and more importantly, morally, it just [is] not right.